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Links for January 14th
Automatically posted links for January 14th:
- Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. – Great takedown of Bush’s appraisal of UAE as “model society”
- Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi – The Middle East nuclear race that really matters
- Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy – Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk
- Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel – Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat
- Pursuing happiness behind the veil – The LAT’s Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor
- Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia – Returnee mujahideen spell trouble
- Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn – Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm
- EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR ‘PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS’ – Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that’s your target?
- EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item – Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt
Kuwait goes fundie
In the past, men and women mingled and dated in Kuwait. The country had mixed beach clubs for nationals. No longer. Most now have separate swimming days for women and men. Like other Gulf states, Kuwait is witnessing a rising tide of fanatical Islam. More and more women wear the veil and more men grow beards to display their religious fervour. Islamist extremism indoctrinated by the Sunni Salafi and Wahhabi movements is spreading from Saudi Arabia to neighbouring Kuwait, influencing its youth and affecting all aspects of life. Many Kuwaitis, like other Arabs, denounce the United States and its allies for backing “corrupt” rulers and what they see as Washington’s war against Islam and plans to control their region’s oil wealth.